The first poster depicts a smiling man with a hand scythe reaping a field of grain and the second a North Korean before the city of Pyongyang with the caption "Let’s develop Pyongyang, the capital city of revolution, into a world-class city!"

Nicholas Eberstadt, from the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute told The Daily Caller that because of the smoke and mirror propoganda that is the DPRK, the posters likely imply the opposite of what they depict — that the country is having a big harvest problem — and leaders are worried about industrial growth in Pyongyang.

There is no doubt that expectations are high for next years vastly hyped 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. The country just announced its plans to finally complete the Ryugyong Hotel project begun in 1987, to coincide with the celebration. But the North is far from being as strong or prosperous as it wishes to appear.

The new posters led us to consider North Korean propoganda at large and we've put up more than a dozen banners here for consideration. Several come from North Korean Posters, by David Heather and Koen de Ceuster.